Daily Search Forum Recap: August 14, 2019

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Search Engine Roundtable Stories: Vlog #10: Ruth Burr Reedy On Google Algorithms, EAT, Quality Raters Guidelines & More In episode #10 of the vlog series at the Search Engine Roundtable I interviewed Ruth Burr Reedy (@ruthburr)… Google Tests Bigger Search Results Fonts Over the past week or so, I’ve received numerous tweets and notifications from the community that Google is testing much larger fonts in the search results page. Well, now I am seeing it myself in some browsers and yes, it feels much bigger. Google: You Can Remove Links From Your Disavow File & Those Links Count Again Google’s John Mueller clarified on Twitter that if you remove links from your disavow file, those links will start to count again – well, if Google hasn’t discounted them other ways (i.e. Penguin or other methods). I am surprised I never outright covered this before, but I 100% mentioned it in numerous posts. SEO Advice: Stop Spamming Googlers With Link Requests & Lists I get it, you automate a lot of your job – that is the efficient way to spam but try to put into your automation a blacklist. Blacklist emailing anyone at a @google.com domain, black list emailing anyone with the name John Mueller, Gary Illyes or anyone who works on search at Google or Bing – LinkedIn is a good resource… [Read full story]